Whispered Words - Part 5 - Neither Of These Can Be Trusted

Part the Last. In which Alphonse tries to tell you everything he has said is wrong. Read Parts 1,2,3 and 4 if you previously have not.

That isn't quite true. What I am going to try to do is to explain why not all of what I've said is gospel truth (beyond the fact that I am an imperfect demimortal).

We already know that Fear is not to be trusted on all occasions. Now we need to know that Truth can't always be trusted. Remember assumption 4, "Both Truth and Fear are impartial." If this holds then they can be trusted equally. If we can't trust Fear at all times them we also can't trust Truth at all times. Right?

True, but we also need to show it in a different way. In part 3 I explained the filters that fear lacks. What I didn't say is that Truth does have filters. Truth is filtered in the same way as you. If we wanted to put this another way we would say that Truth is the rational part of you and Fear is the Irrational part of you.
And we can't always trust rationality.
Because it lies.

Yes that's right. I just said that Truth can lie. Irrationality lacks this ability, but rationality can always lie. I would almost argue that the test of a rational being is the ability to either lie or to withhold the truth.

But back to the filters. If you miss something, it means that Truth won't see it unless you pick it up subconsciously. If you don't, then it won't come to light. Which means that truth can't tell you anything that you can't tell yourself - an unfortunate side effect of sharing your filters. And can you always trust yourself? Then can you trust Truth? Do you know when to trust either party?
If you answered no to any of these, then you have a problem. It you can't rationally trust your rationality then there's not much you can trust.

Just a bit of mind screw to finish the week.